Girls basketball player of the year: Sasha Nagler

Originally planning to attend Redwood High, Nagler had a change of heart and decided to continue at San Domenico, where she had spent her grammar school years as well. With new coach Mike Fulton, whom Nagler played for at the AAU level prior, the two took the program places it had never been before.

San Domenico claimed its first Bay Counties League Central championship and made its second consecutive bid into the NorCal playoffs before losing in the second round of this year's tournament. To top it off, Nagler led Marin County in scoring and has been selected as the Marin Independent Journal's girls basketball player of the year.

"I honestly could not have imagined having seen where the program was when I got there and then go to my senior year and go two rounds into NorCals," Nagler said. "It was a huge leap of faith for me and the other girls and we're starting to realize it. It validated my decision to go here by what we were able to accomplish this season."

With only six players on the roster, Nagler was an integral part of the team, not only as a cog in the stat book, but an emotional leader as well.

"This program is now established as one of the better (Division V) programs in Northern California and that's her signature," Fulton said. "Now we got find a way to keep it going now that's she's leaving, but that's what she did. She put this school and basketball program and athletic program on the map."

The legacy that Nagler left on the basketball team at San Domenico does not escape her thoughts and she knows that what she helped build will continue on in the future.

"I think the program is going to get better and better through the years," Nagler said. "I'm very comfortable and confident with the young women that are taking over the program when I leave. They're in good hands and they're going to work their butts off and move farther and farther along."